Surgery
Volume 147, Issue 1 , Pages 13-20 , January 2010

Long-term follow-up of patients with incidentally discovered pancreatic cystic neoplasms evaluated by endoscopic ultrasound

  • Nonthalee Pausawasdi, MD

      Affiliations

    • Department of Internal Medicine, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI
    • ,
  • David Heidt, MD

      Affiliations

    • Department of Surgery, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI
    • ,
  • Richard Kwon, MD

      Affiliations

    • Department of Internal Medicine, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI
    • ,
  • Diane Simeone, MD

      Affiliations

    • Department of Surgery, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI
    • ,
  • James Scheiman, MD

      Affiliations

    • Department of Internal Medicine, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI
    • Corresponding Author InformationReprint requests: James Scheiman, MD, Division of Gastroenterology, Department of Internal Medicine, University of Michigan, 3912 Taubman Center SPC 5362, Ann Arbor, MI 48109.

,Accepted 17 May 2009.

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doi: 10.1016/j.surg.2009.05.014

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